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To an uninformed outsider, House Speaker Tom Murphy may appear a caricature of the stereotypical Southernpolitician from the 1950s. Bill Shipp His big white hat, long cigar and lugubrious manner reinforce for many non-Georgians what they think...

...following Mississippi, Alabama and some other Southern states down the road of racial ruin. He was the model of the Southernpolitician in transition. Still, Talmadge is an icon of the last century, not this one. And state government today is...

...Plus, there's another reason many Georgians have shown little interest in the election. As a certain Southernpolitician kept reminding himself about a decade ago, it's the economy, stupid. ''Maybe it's because of the stock...

...the pages of "Dixie Rising" were born at the 1984 Republican convention in Dallas while he was interviewing a Southernpolitician for a story. "He could tell from the line of questions I was asking that I was going in a different direction...

...South will blow it,'' he said. Trends in culture seem to be going against the nostalgic virtues that are the Southernpolitician's stock in trade, he said -- citing once again the country's ''Who cares?'' attitude toward the moral...

...helped launch the careers of black leaders, including Lewis, but it also helped make way for a new kind of white Southernpolitician -- moderate, attuned to civil rights issues and appealing to both black and white voters. Without the changes...